Terrorism and its roots
Peoples all around the world express their grief and sympathy for the people who lost their lives in suicide bomb attacks in London and Sharm-al-sheikh, Egypt. By any moral parameters, the incidents are evil and go against humanity. We are assured that world leaders are united against all kinds of terrorism and racial malice. In the mean time, Scotland Yard tightened their security measures and promptly moved towards sophisticated data analysis, by which they succeeded to identify the culprits. So far everything proceeded smoothly and in a logical manner, though a few groups attacked mosques and Muslims. In those steps we witnessed what is terrorism and its outcome. Now, if we actually want to examine the exact fabric and genesis of terror attack, we have to concentrate on the facts which are related to this malignant growth.
The attackers must have been inspired by some motto. What's their motto or ideology ? Then we can turn our attention to Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine as our sample areas to find out the roots of terrorism. Palestinians are out of their homeland for many decades. They are frustrated and desperate. So they are resorting to desperate measures.
The same is the situation in Iraq where hundreds of people are dying every day. So the roots of terrorism must be eliminated before we can expect any tangible improvement in the overall situation.
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